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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Cloud Database Engineer

Question #: 43
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You manage a meeting booking application that uses Cloud SQL. During an important launch, the Cloud SQL instance went through a maintenance event that resulted in a downtime of more than 5 minutes and adversely affected your production application. You need to immediately address the maintenance issue to prevent any unplanned events in the future. What should you do?

A. Set your production instance's maintenance window to non-business hours.
B. Migrate the Cloud SQL instance to Cloud Spanner to avoid any future disruptions due to maintenance.
C. Contact Support to understand why your Cloud SQL instance had a downtime of more than 5 minutes.
D. Use Cloud Scheduler to schedule a maintenance window of no longer than 5 minutes.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

by fredcaram at Dec. 20, 2022, 11:37 p.m.

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fredcaram

Highly Voted 1 year, 12 months ago

Selected Answer: A

A makes more sense than changing products

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LaxmanTiwari

Most Recent 11 months ago

Selected Answer: A

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vodkaHN

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

Changing service is too risky. ==> A

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dynamic_dba

1 year, 9 months ago

A. Migrating to a different platform is a bit extreme, so eliminate B. C would be a good idea in any event, but is not the best answer here. D is not how you manage maintenance windows on Cloud SQL. A is the best answer.

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